![]() She does not have much money." She thought a moment, then whispered, "Susanna is divorced." ![]() "If you can take her in the ambulance, so much the better. "I appreciate this, Major," she told him. "She is of medium height, average figure, and her hair is blond." Emily Reese had been neither his best patient nor his worst one.Įmily obliged with a better description. Almost five years ago he had delivered her son, Stanley, in an army ambulance between garrisons. He knew her well enough to call her Emily. ![]() "I doubt traveling females will be thrilled if I ask if they are thirty-two," he had told her. "I think she is thirty-two," Emily had said. Emily Reese, not the brightest lady, had been unable to furnish Major Joseph Randolph, Fort Laramie's post surgeon, with a working description of Susanna Hopkins, her older cousin. ![]()
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